What does liquidity mean?

Definitions for liquidity
lɪˈkwɪd ɪ tiliq·uid·i·ty

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. liquid, liquidness, liquidity, liquid statenoun

    the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility

  2. fluidity, fluidness, liquidity, liquidness, runninessnoun

    the property of flowing easily

    "adding lead makes the alloy easier to cast because the melting point is reduced and the fluidity is increased"; "they believe that fluidity increases as the water gets warmer"

  3. liquiditynoun

    being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying ability

Wiktionary

  1. liquiditynoun

    The state or property of being liquid.

  2. liquiditynoun

    An asset's property of being able to be sold without affecting its value; the degree to which it can be easily converted into cash.

    Some stocks are traded so rarely that they lack liquidity.

  3. liquiditynoun

    Availability of cash over short term: ability to service short-term debt.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Liquiditynoun

    Subtilty.

    Etymology: from liquid.

    The spirits, for their liquidity, are more incapable than the fluid medium, which is the conveyer of sounds, to persevere in the continued repetition of vocal airs. Joseph Glanvill, Scep.

ChatGPT

  1. liquidity

    Liquidity refers to the ease with which an asset or security can be bought or sold in the market without affecting its price. It can also refer to the ability to convert an asset into cash quickly. In a broader economic context, it indicates the ability of an individual, company, or a whole economy to meet short-term obligations. High liquidity implies quick convertibility and low transaction costs, while low liquidity signifies the opposite.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Liquiditynoun

    the state or quality of being liquid

  2. Etymology: [L. liquiditas, fr. liquidus liquid: cf. F. liquidit.]

Editors Contribution

  1. liquidity

    To have sufficient cash, income, assets or the ability to change an asset into a form of cash.

    Liquidity is important to businesses around the world.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 16, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of liquidity in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of liquidity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of liquidity in a Sentence

  1. Tina Vandersteel:

    JPM had launched a survey, which I'd completed, about what to do about VENZ. The feedback I gave them was, per their index liquidity rules, while the sanctions prevailed, they should be removed.

  2. Michael Kemmer:

    It is really important for banks that the FATF re-evaluates the situation in Iran, the supervisory standards require that business ties with banks that have high risks lead to higher capital and liquidity requirements.

  3. Joe Saluzzi:

    Maybe it was the Morgan Stanley news that kind of stimulated the event, but certainly not enough to move a stock $35 billion, what that is called is evaporation of liquidity, liquidity that was never there in the first place and it’s a typical maneuver that goes on in the fragmented stock market we have now.

  4. Joe Brusuelas:

    The Fed buys and sells government securities each day to maintain the range of its policy rate — the federal funds rate — between 4.5% and 4.75%, they do this each day and it is normal for the central bank to inject and withdraw liquidity from the market to achieve their policy objectives.

  5. Zhang Jun:

    The window is open as the central bank wants to boost liquidity and lower borrowing costs, but the central bank has many means - it has developed many new policy tools.

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